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Sunday, March 4, 2018

Round 6- The Magic Of Alice by Deb Stephens

It has been a while but I am so glad to be back in
this round and swapping Art Journals with a talented lot of artists.
I'm hoping this will re-inspire me to get journaling again.

Anyway,
the Journal itself was made from a second hand, hard bound book I
purchased from an OP Shop. One of my very clever crafty friends
re-purposes these into Scrapbook Albums all the time and gave me a lesson on how
to do it for this swap (eternally grateful for your patience and for
sharing this skill with me, Raiyana.) I used a range of paper from Graphic 45 called Halloween in Wonderland which is just gorgeous! I have left my front cover very basic at this stage as I have a collection of charms and lots of 3D embellishments I want to use on it but I fear that it will not withstand the rigors of postage around the country for a year so I will finish this when it comes home to me and show you in my final Blog entry.

The pages are for our entries are a Mixed Media heavy card stock. Initially when I joined I thought we were going to have a group of about 7 people in each round so I created single pages. When numbers got finalised and the requirements stated each participant had to do a double page spread I panicked! i though I would have to re make my journal and add more pages until another friend suggested adhering extensions to the existing pages so that is what I ended up doing, so each page folds open from the spine. Artists in this round will journal on one side of each fold out page.

For my entry I started by drawing a mask in the shape of a keyhole. I used Distress Oxides to apply colour to the background. I them used die-cuts in black card stock and adhered it to look like silhouettes. I then penciled in the outline of Alice and used Neo Colour crayons and a water brush pen to apply colour. Now I am the first to admit I am not great at drawing facial features, so I used Jane Davenports' set of facial features stamps and stamped in her eyes, nose and mouth. I then added the tree die cut behind her head. After covering it all with gel medium and letting it dry, I added highlights with Fabercastell Pitt Pens and smudged. I may or may not add a quote at a later date, I will just see how I feel when I get her back.

Hope you all enjoy the journal and I look forward to seeing all you Alice inspired entries.

8 comments:

Looking good Deb, it will be exciting for me to receive yours, being last in line, I will get to see them all in real time😍. How lucky you were to have a friend who assisted yoy in making a journal ; this side of it is still a complete mystery to me....